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Couple Killed Each Other As 11-Year-Old Son Played Video Games Nearby

The boy didn’t realize what had happened until he found his parents’ bodies.

While a married couple stabbed, shot, and eventually killed each other in their home in Washington state on Halloween, their 11-year-old son played video games in another room of the house, oblivious to the violence. According to a police report on the incident, the boy was wearing earbuds and didn’t realize what had happened until he found the bodies of his parents, Juan Antonio Alvarado Saenz, 38, and Cecilia Robles Ochoa, 39. While police could not determine who the primary aggressor in the conflict was, they said that Alvarado Saenz died from multiple stab wounds to the chest, while Robles Ochoa was both shot and stabbed. Upon finding the bodies, the boy called 911, but the two adults both succumbed to their injuries. No one else was in the house at the time. The local police said their investigation revealed that the couple “had relationship issues and intended to separate” before the gruesome incident.